63 Stories People Rarely Share Because They Sound Too Strange To Be Real

My Canadian grandfather was a colonel in WW2 and helped liberate France. We have a picture of him with his soldiers next to a tank in front of a stone house.

That house, in Brittany France is my husband’s grandparents. Or was. We bought it two years ago, grandfather passed and grandma is in assisted living.

At the time, his grandpa would have been a child. We live in Southern California and met in LA. Yet… here we are. World and families apart, totally unrelated. My grandpa probably just posed for a quick photo never imagining that that house would belong to one of his grandsons or that he would marry into the family that owned it. A gay marriage as well… which was illegal then.

I woke up during surgery, and I remember what was happening when I woke up. I was having back surgery, I woke up just as my surgeon was stapling me shut! I screamed oww, kicked the surgeon in his stomach and then told him I could feel that. He then said "oh, you can feel that"? I said "why do you think I kicked you"? They finally gave me the correct amount of anesthesia and I woke up in recovery. What an idiot!

I'm adopted. Grew up in section 8 housing. Both parents could not work due to ill health. Had to help support my family from an early age. Found my biological father who is one of the wealthiest men in the state. His family thought I had shown up to get my hands on his money.

My life is Spanish soap opera script, and I'm not even Spanish.

I gave myself a brain injury and have zero memory before my accident. I was 37 at the time. All time before hitting my head gone.

I met my husband on his birthday,and he passed away on my birthday.

I grew up idolizing The Byrds and 35 years later I opened for one of them.

One time I was driving down this country road known for deer crossings. As I was approaching a stop sign, I see out of the corner of my eye a deer running through the field straight at my car. The poor thing realized at the last minute that he wasn't going to make it, tried to stop quickly, tripped over something and smacked his face right on my rear bumper. He got up, turned around and ran away. I laughed so hard I almost peed myself. What a toolkit.

In high school circa 1985, me and friends drove to the mall after school let out. The girl who was driving was under strict instructions to be home by 5:00. We do the mall thing, get in the car, and start for home, with just enough time for us to be dropped off and her to get home.

Sitting at a stop light, turning left, we notice the car in front of us had a bumper sticker with some kind of cute fortune teller message on it. Then the person in our front passenger seat notices that the car in front, the front passenger door wasn’t all the way shut. I quipped “he who has open car door, falls out.”

This was met with much laughter from my friends. The light turns green, the row of cars starts moving through the left turn. And the car in front of us, the front passenger door swings open wide and the passenger tumbles out, somersaults and rolls to a stop.

She wasn’t hurt but we ended up missing the light cycle and my friend gets home a few minutes after 5pm. Her mom to this day doesn’t believe that it happened.

I applied to be on Squid Game The Challenge on a whim just for fun, and actually got accepted! I was eliminated pretty early on, but I got to do all the Squid Game stuff and wear the track suit.

I had Thanksgiving with a member of Pink Floyd.

My grandpa invented many things but one was iron on transfers for t shirts . 👕 the machine is still around he invented !

I left my phone in my car on accident when I found a new part of the north country trail. I hiked up a very steep and tiresome hill only to find that on top was a meadow with thousands of monarch butterflies everywhere and I was too exhausted by life and the hike to go back and get my phone so I just walked through the meadow while the butterflies hit me in the face and hiked back down and left with no proof.

I'm partially blind, so I only see with one eye, the other is fully blind. when I was around 12 I ate something from a street food stand and the mayonnaise had a bacteria so I had stomach problems and a fever and when my mom took me to the doctor they prescribed me like 3 days of antibiotics, in the last day I started feeling better but then I woke up the next morning barely able to see anything at all, just some lights so I screamed for my mom and they took me to my eye doctor and it turns out the bacteria moved from my stomach to my eye because it was "the weakest part of my body" and I went into emergency surgery to save my eye.


And then when I was 26 I got diagnosed with a kind of brain tumor that was 1 in a million but that had nothing to do with the bacteria.

Not to me but to my late mother; she lost her virginity to Jimi Hendrix.

Was walking into a Panera in a small city/suburb of Richmond Va and as I was opening the door to walk in, an adolescent bear ran in between me and the door.

I met my now husband in a car accident.

He crashed his car into mine and another person's, we were both on our way to work it was first thing in the morning. At first I was pissed then when we locked eyes I was like omfg hes so cute. So we were talking and waiting for the tow trucks/police to get there and he asked for my number before leaving and he asked me out either that night or the next day. Been together everyday since

At 9 years old I was in a boat race with Pierce Brosnan off the coast of Majorca.

Was at ER……the doctor looked like Mark Zuckerberg so much so that it was like his twin…..Dr said it was first cousin.

My friend was in the Monica Lewinsky intern group.

I unknowingly showed up at my ex BFs bachelor party at a bar.AWKWARD I didn't even know he was engaged.